Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-20
FARM NOTES.

chestnut.
Beasts with small chests do not fat
ten readily and are very susceptible to
disease.
1t is mistake to suppose that sour
fermented slop for hogs is better thar
fresh mixture that is sweet anC
clean.
Sunfower seed is often fed to poul
try, but if too much be given it viii
cause the feathers to fail off, as it pro
notes early melting.
All animals should have an allow.
ance of linseed meal at least twice q
week, as it will regulate the bowels
and prevent sshide-bound.
Although it is supposed that the hog
eats anything yet it rejects many
grasses and weeds that are readily
eaten by sheep and cattle.
The latest mode Of withdrawing
outbuildings is to have the whitewasll
thin In consistency and force it on the
walls with force pump.
Rotation in crops is the surest and
safest plan in farming, and when one
or two years of pasture shall be in
Guided in the rotation the benefits will
be still greater.
The successful establishment o1
creameries and cheese factories in
Mississippi and other southern States
has given a new impetus to dairy in
terests in the South.
There is less said about sorghum
IL, - Il
since northern corn was introduced
into the country. 1t is fair to presume
that the ''bottom has fallen out of the
sorghum sugar business for good.
The annual honey crop is about
100000 pounds, and its value is
probably about $1O,O0O,OOO This
would give for the annual value of the
production of honey and beeswaz
about $16,000,00O.
Canada has a law relative to the
black knot in plum trees, which re-
quires every person on whose trees the
disease appears to cut it out or other
wise destroy it, the penalty being not
less than S. for each ofense.
E. S. Bufum. of LIE Roy, Iowa, has
Jersey heifer, that gave birth to heI
first calf March II, 1885, which date
lacked one day of her being q year
old. Mr.. Buffum very naturally de.
sires to know if anyone has younger
mother.
The Dorset is q horned breed OF
sheep which has been preserved intact
for a long time, chiefly in Dorset and
Somersetshires, in the south of Eng
land. The original sheep was much
smaller in size than the improved Dor.
sets of to-day.
A few Jumps of charcoal with q box
of wood ashes placed in the hog pen
will prevent many ills arising from
indigestion in hogs. The charcoal
should be fresh. Old charcoal may be
renewed by heating it in the stove fol
lew minutes.
Some queer things are seen in the
veterinary hospital of Philadelphia.
Among others are pigs easy chair,
n padded cell for q lunatic horse, a
Turkish bath, and swinging harness
in which q horse may live or die with
out bearing any weight on his legs.
Store beets, carrots, parsnips and
turnips III bins in the cellar, and pack
them in dry sand or earth, and they
will keep we'll for winter use. This
method will enable the farmer to use
them at any time, which will not be
the case ii they be stored in mounds in
the open air.
Sunfowers are used in Wyoming
territory for fuel. The stalks when
dry are as hard as maple-wood and
make hot fire, and the seed heads
with the seeds in are said to burn bet
ter than the best hard coal An acre
of sunhoWers viii furnish fuel for one
stove for year.
Finely chopped clover hay moistened
with water that has been slightly salt
ed, and sprinkled with corn meal.
makes an excellent food for old stock
that can not we'll masticate hay II
should be fed in connection with mixeo
ground grain also, with small allow
ance Of linseed meal
IN using tarred paper for roofs con.
sideration must be given to the fact
that unless the paper be securely fas.
tened so that the wind can not get I'M
der it the roof will be easily DESTROYED
during the prevalence of very high
wind. Paper roofs are excellent, pro
vided they be properly put on.
Sassafras is nuisance in any field
but it cannot be destroyed very easily
except by grubbing it out-removina
all the roots. Being a hardy and peri
sistent plant it must be killed in it,
younger stages. If allowed to over
run field it will entail nearly as much
labor as is required to clear new land
from brush.
A Now Joreoy nnelon-growor, whose
land is not adapted to that crop, makes
holes two feet across and eighteen
inches deep, which are filled with sand,
loan, and spadeful of chicken com
post, made by mixing one part of
manure to two parts OF sawdust or dry
loan. Very fine muskmelons are
raised in this way.
Poultry-yards should be on sandy
soil, if possible, in order to avoid mud
OF slush on the ground, as roup is LA
BILE to break out in flocks that are kept
on damp locations. The yards should
be we'll drained, the surface covered